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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR Wednesday 10th AUGUST, 2016.



GUARDIAN
* World Bank to delay details on Abacha’s loot spending
* Dream Team gets upfront payment of allowance
* How high political risks affect businesses, loans
* Pray for economic recovery, Ajimobi urges hajj pilgrims
* No plan to increase fuel prices, NNPC boss says
* Why fuel scarcity persists in airports nationwide, by marketers
* ‘Over 51% of Nigerian homes cannot meet daily basic needs’
* Oil market moving towards rebalancing, says OPEC

PUNCH
* Town hall drama: Nigerians tackle Buhari’s ministers
* Petrol should sell for N151.87/litre, marketers insist
* Presidency backs Dogara, says budget not padded
* Flooding looms as Rivers Niger, Benue, Kainji overflow banks
* AGF orders compilation of high profile cases
* Workers flee as gunmen abduct another UNIPORT lecturer
* Nigeria needs change agents, says Buhari
* Town hall drama: Nigerians tackle Buhari’s ministers

THISDAY
* Presidential Adviser: Budget ‘Padding’ Not in Legislative Lexicon
* News Blogger, Sidiq Usman, Regains Freedom, Nigerians Outraged over His Arrest
* MEND Replies Jonathan, Insists Former President is Fuelling N’Delta Militancy
* UN: Failure to Help Farmers in North-east Could Open Door to Radicalisation
* Court Reserves Judgment on Appeals Seeking to Overturn Ruling on Ikpeazu’s Removal
* Lagos Commuters Stranded as BRT Operators Embark on Strike
* Abdulmumin Challenges Dogara, Others to Furnish Anti-graft Agencies with Proof of Allegations against Him
* FG Bans PTA Levies in Unity Schools

THE SUN
* Anambra: 20 women traders injured as 5,000  protest over ejection
* CBN okays write off of banks’ bad loans
* Why we’re borrowing to build infrastructure – Adeosun
* Buhari signed unpadded budget –FG
* Alleged $25,000 bribe-for- signature: Reps probe Dogara
* Review anti-people policies, Sultan tells FG
* Again, gunmen kidnap UNIPORT lecturer
* AGF directs EFCC, ICPC, DSS, Police on cases involving Saraki, Ekweremadu and others

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